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Only predators buy those glasses.
why do you know the android, zuckerborg is one of epsteins clientele.
I support smart glasses. Not from meta or Google or whatever the fuck.
The more cameras we point at cops and people in power, the better.
The moment an open-source privacy focused set of frames exist, I'm buying it.
I agree with your premise, but only if it's stored locally and not sent to a corporation, who is likely going to share videos that help to convict other people of crimes but not allow access to video that shows cops doing something wrong.
But also, there should be a legal requirement to have a light visible when recording. If you're found violating this, it should at least be a sizable criminal offense.
Cop sees the recording light on your glasses. Cop slaps the glasses off your face.
Now I envision cops just straight up jacking people's Rx glasses under suspicion of being recorded, like they do with phones already.
https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi
Originating from:
https://github.com/BasedHardware/openglass
It should have to light up when recording. Like, at a hardware level.
Surveillance at critical points like arrests seems important in order to have basic accountability. Surveillance all the time if you know it or not is more of a slippery slope.
Have a light that beams out from beside the sensor through the same lense, no way to cover it without blocking the camera
Have a visible dot shutter that closes when it's not recording,
Require you to touch the temple on the frame the whole time it's recording.
There are ways
I've heard those sorts of glasses can be handy if you're visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses "hey, do these items match?"
Still creepy in the wild, but there are some valid use cases.
Nah. My wife is legally blind without her prosthetics. She's rather stay blind than use these.
If they could make these glasses more privacy invading by making them useless for the visually impaired, they would.
You don't need glasses for that, you could simply use an on-hand camera, maybe a special phone for those with vision problems
You could carry a laptop and use it's webcam too
It's down to convenience. I'm already looking at what i'm what i'm trying to film, instead of just recording that, i'm looking at my phone screen to try to record the thing and not even witnessing it in real life. I'm at my kids track meet, any time i'm trying to record him running i'm experiencing it through a 5" amoled screen so i my wife can have a video instead of just being there.
We can figure out how to make them impossible not to notice they're recording. we just need privacy shutters or to have to hold the temple or something.
The glasses seem like a better form factor than a hand-held phone, for the use case where you're out and about and your hands are full, managing a service dog harness and/or cane, and trying to shop.
So, I guess you could mount your special phone for the blind on your chest or waist and have it talk to bone conductive headphones you're wearing. And pick up whatever you'd like described and hold it in front of your chest/waist.
(There's other options, the glasses just seem more convenient because they're on your face.)
Like an automated version of the Be My Eyes app.
My wife helps people with this app on a regular basis.
those are some fucking priorities. a little fashion over human rights
Yes, and anyone that buys these glasses to increase their independence is a predator, like the parent poster says. /s
to increase their independence? are you kidding me? then don't be surprised when that so very important function to give clothing advice will suddenly become a subscription service with ever increasing fee! all the while still trampling on the privacy of everyone near you
Yes, how dare someone want to buy dog food without asking for help.
while, yet again, trampling on human rights, out of convenience no less.
I mean! they could be even more convenient, and just order it online! and what do I care if that's what they do. this tech is really not so necessary.
but of course I am the scumbag if I don't like the blind person scanning my face with the Google Lens app just so they can politely greet me by my name.